County Awards Contract To Construct Elementary

November 27, 1985

A $4.5 million contract to build an elementary school in northwest Orange County has been awarded to Hedron Construction Co. Inc. The school is needed to relieve crowded classrooms in that part of the district.

The contract calls for the Orange County builder to complete the school by Aug. 8, 1986, a few weeks before the opening of the 1986-87 school year.

School attendance zones in west Orange are being redrawn this year to coincide with the opening of the school, which will be named Clarcona Elementary. The rest of the school district will be rezoned for 1987.

The school will be built on the north side of McCormick Road between Damon Road and Apopka-Vineland Road.

Clarcona will be built with the ''country barn'' design used at Deerwood Elementary in east Orange. It will relieve crowding at Spring Lake Elementary School, which has more than 1,000 students. Clarcona will be a standard size school, with a capacity of 637 students.

Rezoning in the rest of the school district will be completed by the 1987-88 school year.

Hedron's was the lowest bid submitted by five construction companies. Second low bid was $4.7 million, submitted by Jendoco Construction Enterprises Inc.

School officials also are planning to build a high school in southwest Orange that would open in 1987-88.